Car-grip.



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FREDERICK B. WENTWORTH, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

CAR-GRIP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 23, 1907.

Application filed September 21, 1905. Serial No. 279.399.

To all whom it may concem:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK B. WENTWORTH, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, a citizen of the United States, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Oar-Grips, of which the following is a specification.

Herctofore horse, electric cars and the like have been provided with single leather straps suspended from a hanger arranged upon horizontal rods extending lengthwise the car. These straps become extremely dirty and greasy in a very short time and are a means of spreading disease as germs collect on the straps and are transmitted to the hands of those using the straps. Another dil'ficulty with the strap as now commonly used in cars is that a single strap only is dependent from a hanger so that oftentimes there are not enough straps for those standing in the car unless two persons grasp.

the same strap, which is a SOUICG of inconvenience to both.

The primary object of my invention is accordingly to do away with leather straps by providing enameled, metallic or otherwise non-absorbent handles which may be easily cleaned and which cannot absorb grease and dirt.

Another object of my invention is to provide handles arranged upon individual supports, which supports depend from a single hanger and are so arranged thereon that one handle and support may be used independently of another, so that the motions of the user of one handle will not interfere with the motions of the user of another handle.

It is a further object of my invention to provide means for securing the handles to their supports in such a way that the support can be readily attached to the handle or the handle disconnected therefrom without in any way injuring the same.

My invention can readily be understood by reference to the drawings which form a part of this specification and in which Figure 1 is a side view of a grip embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a front view of the same partly in section.

A is one of the horizontal rods running lengthwise the car which rod is supported by the bracket B attached to the ceiling G.

D is a short hanger encircling the rod A. The hanger comprises a strap passed or looped over the rod A, the short dependent sides (Z, d of which are provided at their ends with loops d d These loops are formed and the two sides of the hanger held together by means of a pin d". The loops d :1 are on separate cords F which support the individual hangers G. The cords F are preferably of different lengths as shown in the drawings and are held together by metallic clasps f. The cords connect with the handles by the ends thereof fitting into tubes H constructed of aluminium or other suitable material and fastened in place by pins I preferably of different lengths so that there are provided handles which both short and tall people can readily reach. Moreover the cords supporting the handles are so connected with a single handle that the motions of the user of one handle will not interfere with another, for it will be noted that the motion will be transmitted from the handle through its corded support and through one side of the hanger only directly to the rod on which the hanger is arranged so that there is practically no interference with the other hanger and its support.

The means of connecting the handles with the support forms a very convenient means for connecting the handle with its supporting cord and it also enables the handles to be removed therefrom and new supports provided without injuring the handles themselves.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

1. A cord grip comprising individual handles, an independent support for each of said handles, and a hanger having dependent sides, and means forming an independent connection between said handle supports and said dependent sides of the hanger.

2. A cord grip comprising individual handles, independ ent supports of different lengths for said handles, and a hanger from which said supports are dependent.

3. A cord grip comprising separate handles, individual supports therefor, and a hanger having two dependent sides with loops formed in the ends thereof and through which loops said handle supports are adapted to be threaded or passed.

4. In a car grip, a handle, a tube in said handle, a cord, and means to fasten the ends of said cord into said tube, as described.

5. A car grip comprising a looped strap, loops E at tached thereto, and a plurality of handles, each attached to one of said loops, as described.

FREDERICK B. WENTWORTH.

Witnesses GEORGE O. G. COALE, ROBERT E. BREWER. 

